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Deft design surprises, and an 80-year-old tale of local landscape rivalry, lurk beneath the cooly elegant facade of Sydney Baumgartner's Santa Barbara garden

The Best Mail-Order Plant Sources

By Lindsey Taylor

Our favorite sources for mail order succulents, orchids, mosses, and other rare plants.

Living Roof on a Bus

By Claire Lui

The bio bus, a mobile science laboratory that travels around New York and the Midwest, providing science education to schoolchildren, also has a living, growing roof that is both aesthetically and functionally green—reclaiming common urban space and transforming it into a moveable garden. Created by Marco Castro Cosio, this living bus roof (his digital prototype is shown above) is an unusual take on green roofs.

Prince William and Kate's Honeymoon Souvenir: A Giant Seed

By Claire Lui

One of our most popular botanic superlative columns was about the seed of the coco-de-mer (The Largest Seed), which, according to the British tabloids, was a honeymoon souvenir for Prince William and his new bride, Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, from their time in the Seychelles Islands. After all, who doesn't want a giant, bottom-like nut for their new house?

Crazy Plant Trend of the Day: Books as Planters

By Claire Lui

Gartenkultur of Italy transforms books into witty and whimsical planters, using hardback and paperback volumes to create an array of unusual planters.

Decorators Gone Wild

By Stephen Treffinger

What happens when interior decorators let loose their considerable talents on the natural world? Check out the photographs from "Landscape Pleasures," an event held at the Parish Art Museum, in Southhampton, New York, this year, which showcased the gardens of celebrated interior designers.

Botanic Notables: The Tree of Hippocrates

By Anna Laurent

It is believed that Hippocrates taught under the canopy of a plane tree on a Greek island. Today, a descendent of that tree is hollowed and hallowed and its cuttings and seeds have been grown throughout the world.

Botanic Notables: Moon Trees

By Anna Laurent

Moon trees are not plants that flourish on lunar terrain, but rather, trees that are grown from seeds that orbited the moon thirty-four times, in the Apollo 14 lunar mission in 1971.